The Library's special-format divisions also provide numerous opportunities to research the lives of women from different backgrounds,
some of whom are current immigrants and others of whom are fourth-and fifth-generation Americans. For example:

With Silk Wings—Asian American Women at Work: Four Women (Lone Ding Vox Productions, 1983, VBC 3836, MBRS), a series of four films that focus on the challenges and conflicts of adjusting
to a new culture, is available for viewing in the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room;

Polish-born American actress Helena Modjeska appears in photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, and several letters
from her can be read in the Manuscript Division;

The Thomas Čapek Collection of Material Relating to Czechoslovakia and Czech Americans, also located in the Manuscript Division,
has a photograph, bibliography, and sketch of the life of Čapek's wife and collaborator, Anne Vostroveský Čapek.